A few years ago, my partner and I had the lofty idea of starting our own healthy food business. Like most small startups, we were passion-rich but resource-poor, so I used our growing network of cool customers as a well of intelligence from which I could draw...

In 1949, American mythologist Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a work of tremendous breadth and depth that compared ancient mythologies from across the world. In thousands of myths and stories, Campbell found a common structure that could be...

Change is unavoidable – it is written into the fabric of our existence. So, it seems, is the fear of change, the opposing force that tries to keep the status quo firmly locked the way it is. Because change represents a step into the unknown, a movement away from the...

Stop random people on the street and ask them why they are there, and you will receive as many different answers as there are people. Some are on their way somewhere, some are waiting for someone, some are sightseeing. But dig far enough and you will eventually get to...

The mind is a mystical thing. All those thoughts, ideas, images – where do they come from and where do they go? What is happening when we dream, or concentrate, or come up with the solution to an algebra problem? Science might not be able to answer these questions...